FORWARD-DEPLOYED ENGINEERING

I build accessibility and trust infrastructure for Spanish-speaking users.

AI systems, automation, and prompt-injection defense, designed in Bogotá and deployed wherever the users are.

Speaking & signals
English C1Local-first builderAI security speaker
Project · 01

Boveda

Personal finance dashboard for Colombian bank accounts

IN PROGRESS
Project · 02

Anti-Phishing Shield

Planned open-source phishing protection for elderly users

CONCEPT
Project · 03

SUPERFARM

Open agricultural intelligence infrastructure

RESEARCH

Meritorious Thesis

Open-Source Live Captioning System for Hearing-Impaired Students

Meritorious · In Use

Universidad ECCI — B.Sc. Systems Engineering · Thesis work: 2022–2023 · Graduated 2024

Built across 2022–2023 after a hearing-impaired classmate had no way to follow lectures in real time. The system generates live subtitles from the teacher's voice directly to the student's screen and stores a full transcript for later review. Completed before the 2024 graduation and awarded a Meritorious distinction. Adopted by two Colombian academic institutions. Zero licensing cost. Deployable by any institution on open source software alone.

Adopted bySENA Regional AmazonasUniversidad ECCI
Node.jsMozilla DeepSpeechNGINXCustom Dictionary Engine

Experience

Self-Employed

Bogotá · Apr 2024 – Present

Freelance Automation Engineer

Designing and deploying automation workflows integrating REST APIs, webhooks, and Python scripts to reduce operational overhead. Maintaining the open-source voice-recognition accessibility tool adopted by SENA Regional Amazonas and Universidad ECCI. Speaker at cybersecurity and network security conferences.

Automationn8nPythonAPIsOpen SourceAccessibility

Funktronic Labs

Remote · Jan 2024 – Dec 2024

QA Tester (Contract)

Executed manual regression and sanity testing across software builds for a US-based game development studio. Documented structured bug reports with reproduction steps, severity ratings, and expected vs actual behavior. Served as bridge between engineering and end-user experience, retesting patches to confirm resolution.

QARegression TestingBug TrackingRemoteTechnical Docs

Projects

Headline Project

Boveda

In Progress

Personal finance dashboard for Colombian bank accounts

Boveda is a local-first personal finance dashboard built for Colombian bank accounts. Colombian banks don't expose transaction APIs, so every existing budgeting tool requires cloud access or credential sharing. Boveda takes a different approach: it parses statement exports (PDF, XLSX, CSV) from Bancolombia, Nequi, and Daviplata, extracts structured transaction data using rule-based parsers per bank, and stores everything locally in SQLite with zero cloud sync. The backend runs on Python 3.12, FastAPI, and SQLAlchemy with Alembic migrations. Each bank has its own parser module handling format inconsistencies, implicit sign inference, and category tagging without machine learning. The API serves structured financial data to a React frontend in progress. Full pytest coverage across parser and API layers. Local-first by design: no credential exposure, no third-party data access, no subscription required to understand your own finances.

PythonFastAPISQLiteSQLAlchemyReact

Other experiments

Speaking

Speaker

AI Tinkerers Bogotá

Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá · May 2026

Lightning talk: before AI can create real value inside an organization, it needs a usable context layer — context, knowledge graphs, and operational memory as the missing infrastructure for practical AI adoption. Event organized by Tribu IA.

Cybersecurity Forum · Bogotá · 2025
Speaker

Cybersecurity Forum

Bogotá · 2025

Panelist on network security and infrastructure.

Credentials

AI Automation Engineering

Coderhouse · 2025

PythonFastAPIn8nLLM IntegrationsGroq API
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Adoption Certification No. 0001-2024 — Voice-to-Text Captioning Tool

SENA Regional Amazonas — Centro para la Biodiversidad y el Turismo · 2024

AccessibilitySpeech-to-TextOpen SourceDigital Inclusion
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Lab Philosophy

How I build.

4 principles

Infrastructure over interfaces. Local-first by default. The same systems lens across fintech, security, and agriculture.

BovedaAnti-Phishing ShieldSUPERFARM
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Updates

Notified when I publish.

Build logs, postmortems, occasional rants. No spam.

Contact

HIRE ME

Open to full-time remote Solutions / Forward-Deployed Engineer roles at AI-native companies.

Based in Bogotá, Colombia. Available for US & European time zones.

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BOOK ME TO SPEAK

Available for talks, panels, podcasts on AI security & prompt injection.

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Not a content creator. Not a generalist freelancer. Not building agencies.

Also taking selective freelance work — DM with details.

lucholabs.devBogotá, Colombia